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Monday, March 20, 2017

"For
better or for worse, Wikipedia is the first place most people look when
they want to learn about someone or something online. I don’t use
Wikipedia as my sole source for important facts, but it’s a great first
stop when I’m researching a topic, and it often helps me find the more
reliable resources I end up citing in articles I write." says Evelyn Lamb, Mathematician and writer.

Mathematician Vivienne Malone-Mayes, a professor at Baylor University from 1966-1994. Her picture was just added to her Wikipedia page. Photo: The Texas Collection, Baylor University. CC BY-SA 2.0

As
I’ve been combing through what seems like a bottomless pit of digitized
old black and white photos of white scientists, the Black History Month
stories and tweets about African-American women scientists were mostly
about the same small group – although this year, plus the fabulous
supersonic boost by Margot Lee Shetterly and the women of Hidden
Figures.

That’s not because the supply of
African-American women scientists from the past with gripping stories is
tapped out. It’s not. Rather, when it comes to the stories of black
women scientists, Diann Jordan writes, “The harvest is plentiful but the
laborers are few”.

There is some randomness about whose
stories have been told, who had compelling, high quality photos taken,
and which images have surfaced online. Mostly it’s not random, though.
The odds are stacked against visibility in the historical record, as it
was in life – and for many of the same reasons.

Vivienne Malone-Mayes
is one of the women Bastian mentioned in her post. Malone-Mayes got her
Ph.D. in math from the University of Texas in 1966 after navigating
challenges such as being ostracized by her fellow students and being
barred from classes taught by R.L. Moore, venerated pedagogue and notorious racist. She was the first African American professor at Baylor University.Read more...

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I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.